Good news! Whether you are using PostgreSQL for general development, or need a version to match your setup on Heroku, getting PostgreSQL 8.3 installed on Snow Leopard is fairly straight forward. However, you’ll want to make some changes so that it works right for you.
Memory usage is getting higher, and my patience waiting on a browser to load changes is getting much lower these days. Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger Phusion will help with both! Here’s how we’ll do it:
Updated: I’ve added info to modify the /etc/profile script to load the path vars for all users. Five Runs has just released an installer for automating the installation process of a full rails stack based on either a development or production environment. Included in the install are: Ruby 1.8.6 Rails 1.2.3 MySQL 5.0 SQLite 3.3 [...]
If you have your domain email hosted with Google, it’s easy to get much better delivery rates using thier servers than those on your webserver. Here’s how to do it using Ruby on Rails.
I’m shifting my focus to talk about what I love. Building scalable web sites using the right technology for the job.